Q: Could Pat Riley talk Dion Waiters into the $8 million mid-level exemption with a promise of a larger payday coming in the future after we have his Bird Rights and do the same thing with Willie Reed for the bi-annual? That would therefore free up...

Because this isn't the time, not in the midst of a playoff race that includes former team and present team, Dwyane Wade demurred.
"Definitely too soon," the former Miami Heat guard said Thursday about a decision on opting out of the second and final...

Although he had expressed interest in a reunion with the Miami Heat as early as a month ago, free-agent forward Dorell Wright on Monday agreed to play the coming season in China.
Wright confirmed on his Twitter account the one-year contract with the...

When it comes to supply-and-demand, LeBron James continues to resonate in South Florida. The New York Knicks? Not so much.
With Monday's release of the Miami Heat's partial-season ticket plans came the release of pricing tiers for 2015-16 opponents.
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The simplistic narrative is that all NBA schedules are the same: 41 at home, 41 on the road, every team in the opposite conference twice, just about every team in the same conference four times. It adds up to 82 and starts at the end of October.
But...

Q: So is the Miami Heat roster completed for the '15-2016 done at this point? I was hoping for some bench additions. -- Tre, Lithonia, Ga.
A: No, it is way, way, way, too early to start thinking that way, or even to be putting together any type of...

The perception of Pat Riley is locked in, fixated, focused.
Amid the mayhem, Riley, during his coaching days, would sit pregame on the bench diagramming one last set of plays, dark-blue pen on light-blue card stock, oblivious to balls ricocheting about...

Pat Riley has always been in a hurry. Impatience has been his virtue. At least when it has come to his tenure with the Miami Heat.
Barely two months after his arrival in 1995, he blew up his roster and traded for Alonzo Mourning. Less than three months...

It used to be these were the depths the Miami Heat would scour only when considering potential first-round postseason opponents.
Now the post-LeBron James Heat find themselves amongst them, battling not necessarily for seeding, but survival.
With the...

Q: Dwyane Wade is scoring but over-dribbling. He is not young enough to beat a lot of guys off the dribble. The ball is therefore is not moving. We can and must do better. -- Leon, Miami.
A: You raise a good point about what transpired Wednesday night...

Q: When are the Heat going to trade Josh McRoberts? He must not want to play here. -- Gio.
A: He does. And no one feels worse for the missed time that he does. He has been almost apologetic about each injury or ailment that has kept him out. The one...

The other injury updates have been pretty much straightforward: Dwyane Wade was waiting out a strained left hamstring, Norris Cole is playing through a dislocated left middle finger, Chris Andersen will be out a while with a sprained right ankle.
But...

Q: I'm tired of everyone pretending it's not over. Dwyane Wade is done. Just retire. It's not that he's old; it's that he's broken. Forget it. -- Johnny.
A: Really? Three weeks into the season, after he misses four games with a sore hamstring? Look, if...

Something is wrong if Heat forward Danny Granger isn't moving.
Constant motion is needed if he's ever going to achieve the goal of again being an everyday player. Even on inactive days, he's active.
Just look for him on the team bench on nights he isn't...

Q: Ira, I don't know if Danny Granger and Josh McRoberts are more Greg Oden or Mike Miller? Do the Heat sign healthy free agents? -- Steve, Miami.
A: They sign players they believe eventually can contribute. With Miller, even after his initial injury...

For three seasons there was no bigger rivalry in the Eastern Conference, no matchup more compelling.
Even last season, when the latest chapter again came to a disheartening close for his team, Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel was focused on writing...